19:45, Tue 5th – Sat 9th November 2002 at ADC Theatre
Michaelmas Week 4

Mother Courage and her Children follows the armies of the Thirty Years War back and forth across Europe, selling provisions and liquour from a canteen wagon. The war devours her children one by one. And yet she carries on.
 
Written by one of the most important theatrical innovators of modern timesit is widely acknowledged as amongst the greatest plays of the twentieth centuryThis epic tale, spanning twelve years and most of Europe, is at turns touchingfunny, tragic and bitterly ironic. Written in 1939 as a warning about the futilitand horror of war, the play, with its setting of a war of faiths, is stilrelevant today. This production will mix theatre and song using Paul Dessau’original score and will seek to bring out the power and subtlety of one othe strongest theatrical statements ever made.